National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Gallery of Art)美国国立亚洲艺术博物馆（弗利尔与赛克勒美术馆）

Type

Museums

Location

United States · Washington, D.C. · Washington · 1050 Independence Avenue SW; under the Smithsonian Institution

Coordinates

38.8883, -77.0275 Map ↗

First built

The Freer Gallery of Art opened on 9 May 1923 · Together with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery constitutes the National Museum of Asian Art

Overview

The Freer Gallery of Art opened on 9 May 1923, and together with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery constitutes the National Museum of Asian Art under the Smithsonian Institution, a major center for East Asian art collections in the United States. Its holdings of Chinese painting, ceramics, jade, and ritual bronzes are extensive, and its Daoist-themed paintings and images are important material for the study of Daoist iconography. The museum also has a place in the history of Daoist art studies in the United States: the systematic scholarly attention paid to Daoist art by North American museums in the late twentieth century echoes the Art Institute of Chicago's 2000 exhibition "Taoism and the Arts of China," before which Daoist art had long been subsumed generally under "Chinese religious art" without an independent curatorial framework. Owing to limitations of the museum's collection-search interface, a specific inventory of this museum's Daoist holdings could not be verified; the official website asia.si.edu should be consulted.

Highlights

• The National Museum of Asian Art under the Smithsonian Institution
• Opened in 1923
• Holdings of Chinese painting, ceramics, jade, and bronzes
• Material for the study of Daoist iconography